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Gatekeeping African studies: What does ‘editormetrics’ indicate about journal governance?

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dc.contributor.authorMendonça, Sandro
dc.contributor.authorPereira, João
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Manuel Ennes
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-18T16:02:43Z
dc.date.available2025-03-18T16:02:43Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper probes the internal governance of research journals by focusing on the editorial boards of leading African studies academic journals. We submit editorships to systematic scrutiny through a number of perspectives: geography, gender, institutional affiliation, research performance, entry/exit, etc. Overall, leading journals in the area of African studies are found to be less inclusive than expected: under a quarter of the editors are Africa-based scholars while women are even scarcer. Observations on editorial inflation, repeat editors, interlocking editorships and differentiated journal positionings are also made possible by taking a quantitative approach to editorial evidence. What we refer as ‘‘editormetrics’’ thus suggests the need for further debate regarding the managerial rules and roles of journals. This perspective may, and perhaps should, inform other evidence based appraisals of the journal ‘‘industry’’ and the research policy scene at largept_PT
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dc.identifier.citationMendonça, Sandro; João Pereira and Manuel Ennes Ferreira .(2018). “Gatekeeping African studies: What does ‘editormetrics’ indicate about journal governance?”. Scientometrics, Volume 117: pp. 1513–1534. 2018pt_PT
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2909-1pt_PT
dc.identifier.eissn1588-2861 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0138-9130 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/99426
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSpringer Naturept_PT
dc.subjectEditorshipspt_PT
dc.subjectEditormetricspt_PT
dc.subjectResearch Governancept_PT
dc.subjectEditorial Inflationpt_PT
dc.subjectInterlocking Editorshipspt_PT
dc.subjectAfrican Studiespt_PT
dc.subjectGlobal Southpt_PT
dc.titleGatekeeping African studies: What does ‘editormetrics’ indicate about journal governance?pt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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